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Herma of Theophrastus
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Herma of Theophrastus

Luna marble, 1st cent. A.D.
Rome, Musei Capitolini, inv. 602

From Theophrastus' will, we learn that the Lyceum of Athens included a Mouseion and a garden. And it is very likely that he studied the biology and physiology of plants described in his Historia plantarum and De causis plantarum in these places.